The Principles of Political Economy Applied to the Condition, the Resources, and the Institutions of the American PeopleLittle, Brown,, 1856 - 546 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα xv
... Civilized ones seek wealth , not food Commerce equalizes the supply of food everywhere 146 147 Hence , the whole earth is made to feed any nation 148 The amount , not of food , but of wealth , limits population 148 Causes of the famine ...
... Civilized ones seek wealth , not food Commerce equalizes the supply of food everywhere 146 147 Hence , the whole earth is made to feed any nation 148 The amount , not of food , but of wealth , limits population 148 Causes of the famine ...
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... civilized community and a nation of savages consists in the vastly greater abundance , possessed by the former , of all the means of comfort and enjoyment . These means , including the necessaries , conveniences , and luxuries of life ...
... civilized community and a nation of savages consists in the vastly greater abundance , possessed by the former , of all the means of comfort and enjoyment . These means , including the necessaries , conveniences , and luxuries of life ...
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... civilized man . In its primitive state , it can support only a few savages upon the fruits and roots of the forests . The value which it now has is what labor has given to it . How many ages , how much capital , how much toil , had to ...
... civilized man . In its primitive state , it can support only a few savages upon the fruits and roots of the forests . The value which it now has is what labor has given to it . How many ages , how much capital , how much toil , had to ...
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... civilized people , or under the government of a Turkish pacha , property being insecure , he would probably obtain it in the form of gold or silver coin , and bury it in the corner of his cellar or garden . There , sure enough , it ...
... civilized people , or under the government of a Turkish pacha , property being insecure , he would probably obtain it in the form of gold or silver coin , and bury it in the corner of his cellar or garden . There , sure enough , it ...
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... civilized nation is in a state of constant flux and renova- tion , the apparent stability and unchangeableness of the for- tunes of individuals offering no exception to this principle . The instance analyzed also proves , that a gain ...
... civilized nation is in a state of constant flux and renova- tion , the apparent stability and unchangeableness of the for- tunes of individuals offering no exception to this principle . The instance analyzed also proves , that a gain ...
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Σελίδα 476 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself...
Σελίδα 132 - In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Σελίδα 475 - That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation.
Σελίδα 122 - The laws and conditions of the production of wealth, partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional, or arbitrary in them. Whatever mankind produce, must be produced in the modes, and under the conditions, imposed by the constitution of external things, and by the inherent properties of their own bodily and mental structure.
Σελίδα 56 - One of those boys, who loved to play with his companions, observed that, by tying a string from the handle of the valve which opened this communication, to another part of the machine, the valve would open and shut without his assistance, and leave him at liberty to divert himself with his playfellows.
Σελίδα 476 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Σελίδα 500 - They were themselves, either from their original condition, or from the necessity of their common interest, nearly on a general level in respect to property. Their situation demanded a parcelling out and division of the lands, and it may be fairly said, that this necessary act fixed the future frame and form of their government. The character of their political institutions was determined by the fundamental laws respecting property.
Σελίδα 225 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Σελίδα 233 - In every society the price of every commodity finally resolves itself into some one or other, or all of those three parts; and in every improved society, all the three enter more or less, as component parts, into the price of the far greater part of commodities.
Σελίδα 10 - What is annually saved is as regularly consumed as what is annually spent, and nearly in the same time too ; but it is consumed by a different set of people.